Verb

(en verb)

To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.

* 1858 , Henry Stephens Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson (volume 1, page 461)

in 1786, and for some period later, there were few, if any, prominent Americans, who avowed themselves in favor of broadly democratic systems.

To bind or devote by a vow.

(Wyclif)

(legal) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.

(Blackstone)

Verb

(conced)

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.

Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.

To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

To admit to be true; to acknowledge.

To yield or make concession.

(sports) To have a goal or point scored against

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(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.